US Patent Issued to MARUHACHI MURAMATSU on Sept. 15 for "Peptide, cell growth promoter, protein production promoter, culture medium, cell growth method using peptide, and protein production method using peptide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,451, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MARUHACHI MURAMATSU INC. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Peptide, cell growth promoter, protein production promoter, culture medium, cell growth method using peptide, and protein production method using peptide" was invented by Yoshinori Hokari (Shizuoka, Japan), Natsuko Narawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Keita Aoshima (Shizuoka, Japan), Harumi Sugiya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Aya Sekine (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a synthetic culture medium not containing animal-derived components. In particular, an object is to provide a culture medium not containing animal-derived compon...